Âme te souvient-il ? [English translation]

Soul, does it remember?

Soul, does it remember at the bottom of paradise

From Auteuil's station and trains of long ago

bringing you everyday, coming from the chapel?

So long ago already! Yet how I remember

after the first words of good morning and welcome

My old arm in yours we were leaving that Auteuil

And under the trees filled with a kind music

Our discussion was often metaphysical

O your strong arguments, your coalman faith

Not without some tendency, O so frank! to deny

But left so quickly at the first step of doubt!

And then we came back, more than slow, by road

A bit of the long way, at my place, at ours rather

to have lunch of hardly anything, lightly smoking quick and early

And hurry a long time a vague work

My poor child, your voice in the Bois de Boulogne!

• Artist:Léo Ferré
• Album:Bobino (1969)